CompuServe Messages

thanks for the complement. To save a basic file to another disk on a single drive system you must use the volume name (that's the name that shows up under the disk icon on intuition) with a colon after it in save. IE. in basic SAVE"<disk name>:<file name>". CHDIR"<disk name>:" will also work, except for basic DIR, and saves you typing. (shell"dir <disk name>:" will give you directories). One more thing, since you will be typing disk volume names alot I suggest you use short names with no spaces, 04 (thats zero four) and the like work well, are quick to type, and don't need to be surrounded with quotes so dos will like them. Use the rename option on Intuition to change disk names and DON'T use special symbols # ? / : " they give dos fits. james powell ps. this discussion also applies to CLI mode, using volume names will force dos to always insist you insert the named disk before it does anything and after it has gotten the command off the boot disk. Enter command, N for next message or <CR> for menu : n